Walking and Writing Nature with Renata Golden

Join us for a nature and writing hike through Write On, Door County’s campus. On this hike, we will take time to observe the plants, trees, birds, and other living creatures we see, and listen for the sounds they make in the wind or in their calls. We might even stop to smell the roses. With writing prompts, we will draft short poems or flash prose pieces that we can share with the group or keep to build on in our later work. Bring a notebook, pen or pencil, drawing materials if you would like, and your sense of wonder. This field trip is suitable for adults with all levels of writing experience.  Suitable for ages 16 & up.

This program is offered as a field trip of The Ridges Nature Sanctuary’s Festival of Nature. To register, please visit their website.

Renata Golden’s essays and poems have been published in several literary journals and anthologies, including Dawn Songs: A Birdwatcher’s Field Guide to the Poetics of Migration edited by J. Drew Lanham and Jamie K. Reaser in 2023, a 2022 anthology from Torrey House Press titled First and Wildest: The Gila Wilderness at 100, and a 2020 anthology from Cornell University Press titled When Birds Are Near. Her essay collection about the Chiricahua Mountains in southeastern Arizona is the inaugural book in the Longleaf Nature Series from Columbus State University Press, launching in 2024. Renata is reviews editor for Terrain.org; she holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Houston. Originally from the South Side of Chicago, Renata lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.